Waxy.org is the sandbox of Star Wars Kid, Redux
Posted May 22, 2006
October 12, 2008
Ultima creator Richard Garriott launched into space
— Lord British spending 10 days on the International Space Station for a cool $30 million
Moral psychology testing on Amazon Mechanical Turk
— Brendan O'Connor's blog is one of my new favorites; he works at Dolores Labs
Conplot, a commandline plotter with ASCII art
— for use with piping from sort|uniq -c and the like
October 11, 2008
Preview of Gomibako, like Tetris with garbage
— every object has physical properties, so trash can be crushed, burned, or toppled
October 10, 2008
Gary Vaynerchuk on recession-proof marketing and dumb advertising
— don't miss the part where he queries his UStream followers in real-time
October 9, 2008
October 8, 2008
Tuttuki Bako, poke virtual characters in a little box
— like Tamagotchi meets Levelhead
Kevin Mitnick on the indictment of Sarah Palin's email hacker
— he also touches on his own recent encounter with U.S. customs
Portal: Prelude, extensive fan-made Portal mod, released a day early
— Gamespy loved it, but warns that it's very hard
Inspired by xkcd comic, YouTube adds audio previews for comments
— this works nicely for quick speech synthesis with simple URL hacking
NYT to close International Herald Tribune website
— I remember when their 2000 redesign blew away everyone with impressive DHTML features
Steven Levy visits Jay Walker's insane personal library
— funny, I keep all my priceless artifacts in cardboard boxes in the basement
October 7, 2008
Yahoo! Calendar finally, finally launches redesign
— ten years in the making
Chuck Klosterman's Brief History of the 21st Century
— like Kottke said, there's too much in here to like; related: Phone Sex AI
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YouTube in Super HD!
— after it buffers, try clicking "Restart" to get it in sync
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Little Big Computer, a virtual electronic 8-bit calculator built in Little Big Planet
— see also: Mechanical 5-bit Calculator in the Half-Life engine
October 6, 2008
Mail Goggles, Gmail tries to prevent late-night drunk emails
— this could also be used to keep you from answering personal email during work hours
DJ Z-Trip's Obama Mix
— very listenable pastiche of rock and hip-hop from Pink Floyd to Saul Williams with a strong political undercurrent
This American Life's Another Frightening Show About the Economy
— followup to The Giant Pool of Money episode from May
Take on Me: The Literal Version
— if songs sang what was happening in the music video
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TIGSource's Bootleg Demake competition winners
— best game competition ever
Sarah Palin's evening gown entry to the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant
— "In Alaska, we have mosquitoes."
Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta
— Banksta 4 Life
The Big Picture on Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth from Above photographs
— with convenient Google Maps links for each
October 4, 2008
Keith Loutit's tilt-shifted time-lapse videos
— reminds me of an ant colony
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The VP Debate on Auto-Tune
— it's got a beat and you can dance to it
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October 3, 2008
Flickr adds rainbow-vomiting panda feature to Explore
— finally, some innovation in the photo sharing space
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10:31 PM
I love it. The same zest as the original, but now with a better GUI and more data-destroying potential.
1:11 AM
Oh, mathowie, you lovable scamp.
1:38 PM
Ahhh-hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
2:07 PM
Heheheheh
8:06 PM
HA!
5:33 PM
I thought thishadto do with the SWK getting an iBook.
4:47 AM
Haha! Reminds me of the scene from Arrested Development.
3:31 PM
Ok that is just stupid ok and what is he doing ok this is VEREY VEREY VEREY STUPID!!!!!!!! ok buh-byes and so long
11:04 PM
What the hell? Is this an ad for how tough the ibook is, or is this somebody that has kidnapped an ibook and showing it being abused?!?!?!
4:05 PM
So, in memory of a fallen former cow-orker, I'm featuring the Waxy.org links blog as one of our top picks this week (not like you need the recognition from me, or anything, but still).
Anyway, Bob (that being his name) really liked the original SW kid video, so I thought that posting a comment to this followup entry was kind of fitting.
Thanks -- Joe
1:54 PM
how is ghyslain?
did u ever find out what he did with the money?
i love him even tho i dont know him, i would love to have a chat with him sometime even though he is 30 something! lol i know i'm strange
8:38 PM
That guy is a classic.
He should get girlfriend....